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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right by Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) (Wiley) When LaMagna graduated from HBS, his entrepreneurial activities — including operating discos in drive-in theaters and working with the 1960s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
now ubiquitous invitation-only Internet flash sale. Up next for Wilkis Wilson: at-home beauty service startup Glamsquad. That’s what Tinker Tailor offers. “I heard from all these women who really wanted to buy beautiful high-end... View Details
- August 2009
- Teaching Note
Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network (TN)
By: Sunil Gupta and Sangman Han
Teaching Note for [509012]. View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
and Mario Morino, cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), based in Washington, D.C. Panelists agreed that the goal for philanthropy should be to help an organization scale to the point that it can sustain itself.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
joint degrees, students must be admitted independently to both HBS and KSG. “Graduates of this new program will be able to address some of the world’s most pressing issues that call for collaboration between the public and the private sectors and that require leaders... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
was critical in getting the ball rolling for Relay Rides, a service allowing customers to rent neighborhood cars from private owners by the hour or by the day. (Clark also got some “Air Time” in the December Bulletin. By the fall of his... View Details
- Web
Staff Directory | Baker Library
Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: data licensing and vendor relationships, data sourcing and access. Jen Beauregard Information Research Specialist Baker Research & Data Services... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
relationship. With operations primarily online, their major expenses are technology and advertising. Labor costs are miniscule, because the workers who create revenue are independent contractors. In contrast, traditionally structured... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that lags in technology diffusion arise along two distinct margins: scale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
"Capital overhang is a big issue that keeps coming up over and over again," said Fergal J. Mullen, a general partner at Highland Capital Partners who focuses on software and services companies. Mullen said he looks for companies... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
day came at lunch with the screening of a ten-minute film tribute — The Sum of Our Own Greatness — to the small army of service workers who keep the campus humming 24/7, 365 days a year. The film presented a parade of still photos of HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School’s curriculum. “There’s one Chinese company, for example, that has established an e-mail/postal service that expedites... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
seem, sex traffickers operate a lot like businesses," she says. "You see these fascinating informal networks of organized criminals sort of collaborating through different aspects of the human trafficking supply chain, so to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
investing, bringing transparency to the financial services market, and enabling retail investors to invest their capital in a way that aligned with their values. However, getting to scale and profitability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
One of Boston's main cultural attractions, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), has experienced a steady decline of its core audience over the last decade. The museum's executive director attempted to bridge the shortfall by staging new, innovative, special exhibitions,... View Details
Keywords: Product Marketing; Growth Management; Innovation Leadership; Capital; Financing and Loans; Service Operations; Consumer Behavior
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Museum of Fine Arts Boston." Harvard Business School Case 506-027, October 2005. (Revised September 2006.)
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
entrepreneurs to become really large and successful,” says Ayala. “The way they create this multiplier effect is by helping scale up a very special kind of entrepreneur that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” Endeavor Philippines... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to do is work on is following a phased plan. And there are three phases to the plan. Phase one was fixing the fundamentals of the business, which are making sure you're operating well, making sure you got high-quality food and system.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Shining Knight
his pet passion, educational philanthropy." The article reported how in 1998, Ogden went public on the London Stock Exchange with Computacenter, the giant computer services company he cofounded, with all proceeds from its 3.5 million... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace